Word: knighting
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...knight with-out armor in a savage land," the theme song said. Paladin was a good guy who dressed in black, dispensing bullets, beatings and quotes from Shakespeare with equal facility. As incarnated by Richard Boone, whose dandyish mustache and amused baritone voice lent ironic counterpoint to a face that looked as if it had just lost six barroom brawls, Paladin was the hired gun as moral arbiter. He needed no supporting cast to cheer on or question his decisions; he already had the writers and directors to make this series the best in the West...
...colleagues, he never seemed rushed. Many of Evans’ colleagues remarked on his gentlemanly presence, his modesty, his refusal to say anything unkind about anyone. Tobin said he remembers that at Evans’ 90th birthday party, a friend gave a toast comparing him to a medieval knight. “There was a kind of chivalric elegance to him,” Tobin said. Bruster quoted a passage from Shakespeare in which Hamlet laments the loss of a great king and father. “Hamlet’s line, ‘We shall not look upon...
...behavior. SALMA HAYEK and JULIANNE MOORE served as co-hosts of the Nobel Peace Prize concert, which airs this week in the U.S. The event, held last month in Norway, honored Nobel laureate Mohamed el-Baradei and his International Atomic Energy Agency with performances by Duran Duran and Gladys Knight. Hayek knows viewers may tune in to see her and Moore, not the honoree. "Why do we only pay attention to important issues if people from an unimportant sector--entertainment--talk about them?" the Frida star asks. "We want to be distracted from thinking...
...John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced last week that it had selected John S. Carroll as the first Knight Visiting Lecturer, a position that will focus on journalism and public policy and will be based at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). The Knight Foundation, which advocates journalism and community service, founded the lectureship in a joint project with the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy to attract nationally recognized, practicing journalists. Those selected as Knight lecturers receive a $200,000 grant, which they can use to research at the university of their choice...
...effort to get ahead of the protests, Nike in 1998 appointed its first CSR director. Last April it revealed how far it had traveled along the path to CSR redemption when it released a report in which chairman Philip Knight apologized for his laggardly response to the crisis in the 1990s. In an unprecedented move, Nike also laid bare not only the audits of its suppliers but also its entire supply chain. Nike has found that some of its suppliers still permit physical and verbal abuse of laborers, but its brand is once again glistening...